Virsh pool-define-as
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↑ https://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh
↑ https://libvirt.org/formatstorage.html
virsh pool-define-as Create a permanent pool but do not start it.
virsh[1] pool-define-as name type
- pool types fs, logical, disk, iscsi, iscsi-direct, zfs, vstorage[2]
[--source-host hostname] [--source-path path] [--source-dev path] [--source-name name] [--target path] [--source-format format] [--auth-type authtype --auth-username username [--secret-usage usage |--secret-uuid uuid]] [[--adapter-name name] [--adapter-wwnn --adapter-wwpn] [--adapter-parent parent]] [--print-xml]
Create a pool
Create a permanent, autostart pool of type dir
virsh pool-define-as MY_STORAGE_POOL --type dir --target /var/lib/libvirt/MY_STORAGE_POOL_PATH Pool MY_STORAGE_POOL defined
virsh pool-autostart MY_STORAGE_POOL Pool MY_STORAGE_POOL marked as autostarted
virsh pool-start MY_STORAGE_POOL Pool MY_STORAGE_POOL started
Review creation
virsh pool-list Name State Autostart ------------------------------------------- MY_STORAGE_POOL active yes
virsh pool-info MY_STORAGE_POOL
Name: MY_STORAGE_POOL UUID: 4a208Ra0-tf7x-49b6-9ad7-47e71dfeb82d State: inactive Persistent: yes Autostart: yes Capacity: 9.02 TiB Allocation: 2.16 TiB Available: 6.87 TiB
virsh vol-list MY_STORAGE_POOL --details
Name Path Type Capacity Allocation ----------------------------------------
Activities
- Understand differences between
pool-define,pool-define-asandpool-create,pool-create-as - Create a Persistent storage pool
- Create a Persistent storage pool and migrate some machines: Offline Migrate or move a virtual machine between two KVM servers without shared storage
Related commands
See also
virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes,virsh nodedev-list- KVM, Installation, QEMU,
virsh,virtinst,libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
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